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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These responses are helpful. Our school accepts a lot of kids via lottery and if feels like they are always adding just one more. I get inbound enrollment can happen any time.  But it is a choice to error on the side of a big vs small class at the beginning of the year and the teachers constantly complain classes are too big.  [/quote]

You're still not really getting it. You have to understand that the central office of DCPS has a lot of power here. It's a school system, not a bunch of random unrelated schools. A principal can't say "I like small class sizes, so I'm not taking lottery kids, but give me the same amount of funding anyway." That's not how it works. Central does not want one school to habitually have smaller class sizes. Neither does the WTU-- class sizes are in the union contract with a list of acceptable reasons to have a large class size.

Personally as a parent, I'm fine with bigger class sizes because I think small classes are expensive and research doesn't support it as being better. So I'd rather have the budget increase.[/quote]

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